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The Anvik Tribal Council, in partnership with the UAF Community Research Partnerships for Sustainable Traditional Harvest Practices and the Alaska Native Place Names Project, will host a place names workshop in Anvik, February 27–March 2, 2018. The workshop will begin efforts to bring together traditional Deg Hit’an place names using online mapping and media tools that allow for the integration of stories. We hope that this tool will help us better understand the history of Anvik’s traditional territories and prepare current and future Deg Hit’an generations for climate, social, economic, and regulatory changes affecting their traditional territories. As stated in the Anivk tribal council research proposal:

Sinoght xltdoyh gits’ anxitadotTell me a story, the weather is going to change

Workshop topics include:

overview of place names atlas and functionality

discussion of strategies for recording and collecting place name information

Gwich’in Nąįį Googindì’ K’ìt

The next workshop on the Gwich’in Place Names Atlas will take place on April 17-19, 2018 in Fort Yukon. If you would like to attend the workshop, or know somebody who does, send an email to info [at] akplacenames.org.

Shryah K’ǫǫ (Eight Mile Slough near Fort Yukon)

Workshop Topics will include

possible coordination or sharing of place names data with Old Crow and Fort McPherson.

possible linking to the Canadian atlas on the Gwich’in Tribal Council’s website.

management issues – formalizing an oversight organization.

a community-driven process for hiding sensitive information from public view.

The ANPN project will host a workshop on the Gwich’in place names atlas for community members and elders in Fort Yukon on July 11-12, 2017. Contact Joe Matesi (jmatesi@alaska.edu) for more information.